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The primary objective of this paper is to find whether or not the governance and institutions matter for enhancing … Asias trade. In this study, we have performed a comprehensive empirical analysis of the linkages between governance and … trade at the Asian subregional level. Our results indicate that all individual governance indicators except regulatory …
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The increasing demands and expectations placed upon the Philippine bureaucracy by a redemocratizing society are further amplified by the strengthening of global institutional pressures emanating from organizations such as the World Trade Organization and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation....
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This paper develops a new insight enabling the empirical study of media capture: minority shareholders of newspapers and readers face similar risks. Both are adversely affected when corrupt insiders use the newspaper for personal profit and receive invisible revenues. This means that relevant...
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shareholders) engage in corporate governance. In classical models, blockholders exert governance through direct intervention in a … governance by extracting private benefits of control or pursuing objectives other than firm value maximization. I highlight the …
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Motivated by a novel stylized fact -- countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance -- we … ways: broader power sharing (associated with better governance) means that any rents have to be shared more broadly, hence … capital city allows the elite to appropriate a larger share of output, so the costs of better governance for the elite, in …
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Bangladesh came into being following more than two decades of political struggle culminating in the war of independence in 1971. This struggle was inspired by a vision for a democratic, non-communal, prosperous, and equitable society. After 15 years of parliamentary democracy, it is reasonable...
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Bangladesh came into being following more than two decades of political struggle culminating in the war of independence in 1971. This struggle was inspired by a vision for a democratic, non-communal, prosperous, and equitable society. After 15 years of parliamentary democracy, it is reasonable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647708
), as of June 2011. This paper discusses how RTAs support or debilitate the GATS in its governance function as the keeper of … governance by focusing on four different issues : architecture; compliance; ability to promote reforms; and actual impact of RTAs …
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), as of June 2011. This paper discusses how RTAs support or debilitate the GATS in its governance function as the keeper of … governance by focusing on four different issues : architecture; compliance; ability to promote reforms; and actual impact of RTAs …
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order to examine this question, we designed a behavioral measure of the population’s desire for better governance. A … countries with better governance, especially return migrants. …
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